Thursday, December 31, 2009

Three-plus years, a million page loads and a hundred followers ago, we were just a bunch of Dodger fans scattered around the country. Now, we're a bunch of Dodger fans scattered around the country — with a blog! Although we've been lucky enough to see the Dodgers make the playoffs for three of the four years of our existence, I'm most thankful for the community of readers that has grown on this site. We haven't coined the "SoSG Bar" nickname for nothing — this truly feels like the Dodger blog where everybody knows your name. So thank you, readers — commenters and lurkers alike — for joining us. Here's to more cheering, cursing, yuks, arcane references and general madness in 2010. Sláinte!

Thank YOU, Orel (and ALL of the sons) for the daily dose of entertainment, enjoyment and enlightenment! Just bought my plane ticket to Arizona for Spring Training and will be online at 9am Thursday to get tickets to the games at Camelback! Woo Hoo!And...pitchers and catchers report in about 6 weeks?!! Oh yeah!! Counting the days...HAPPY NEW Year!

If someone would have told me a few years ago that there was a place I could go to talk smack about Dodgers, make obscure Simpsons, Star Wars, Beastie Boys, and Jack In The Box advertisement references, all in one place, I would have guessed it was either ComicCon or the insane asylum. Now I know there's SoSG, which, upon reflection, may be a combination of both. And that's a good thing.

Hopefully the SoSG bar is already open because some Bloody Marys are in order before I head over to heckle Ohio State fans in Old Pasadena this morning.

To the good people who run this blog: thanks again for all your efforts and hard work in 2009. So appreciate the puzzles, the game threads, the PGTs (both the HFYPGT and the GDMFPGT varieties), the odd media and advertising critique, and most of all the welcome place for us band of Blue brothers and sisters.

Cheers, everyone!

ps-RB, can you pick up this round? I left my credit card at Lucky Baldwin's last night and don't have any cash.

Thank the Sons for providing the only platform for me to truly expresss my snarky baseball knowledge without looking like a weirdo in front of non-fanatics. Here's to more years of success both on the diamond and on the server!

"The Dodgers have opened discussions on a multi-year contract with Matt Kemp; agent said Kemp might prefer to go year to year"

That doesn't bode well (or am I being too negative, Karina?). Kemp not wanting a long deal could easily mean that he wants to go short and test big deal options later instead of being locked in - entirely understandable. But it could also mean he is skeptical about Dodgers' viability in the medium to long term and wants to leave himself an out.

If you could see the spread we've laid out tonight...made yet another full turkey and dressing dinner (cause Tgiving and Xmas weren't enough, clearly)...still have holiday beverages on...champipple cooling...and two blocks south of the Rose Parade route. Oh, and American tackle football on the telly.